Saturday, May 23, 2015

SMALL ACTIONS MATTER

SUNSET ON THE MALECÓN - PUESTA DEL SOL

EL MALECÓN EN PUERTO VALLARTA

There are so many people and places and animals and things that need saving. There are many times when I wish I were somewhere else, trying to help save something else more important than cats and dogs. They are not in danger of becoming extinct. Quite the opposite. They keep being born to suffer. But I am here in this astonishingly beautiful place and see the misery of the animals on the street and want the suffering to eventually end. Thank you to those individuals and groups that are committed to making things better for all things everywhere. Small actions matter.

CALLE 8 DE MAYO - COAPINOLE

I took a 25-minute taxi ride to Coapinole on Saturday, as our car was still in the shop. We drove north through the very lively municipality of Pitillal and then east towards the foothills. As we passed a small green lake in the middle of a grassy area, the driver said that it was very mysterious how the level of the water never rose or fell. There are apparently no crocodiles in the lake, but it is completely fenced in with no access to it. Three dusty blocks east of the little lake in an empty concrete house is where the clinic took place.

OTRA VISTA DE LA CALLE 8 DE MAYO - COAPINOLE

When I arrived shortly before nine, the clinic was already at capacity, as Saturday is half-day. Cats and dogs were already registered and in kennels. Although some pet owners had arrived as early as seven, there was still a small group of people waiting with pets, hoping the vets would take more. A quiet, slender teen-age boy with a baseball cap on

RESCATADA Y ESTERILIZADA - COAPINOLE

backwards brought in three eight-week old puppies that he had found in the street. He had taken them for their first shots and said they had all been spoken for. The boy told me that he had recently rescued a total of twelve kittens and had taken them to be fixed and then found homes for all of them. An attractive plump woman in levi shorts and a turquoise t-shirt brought in a neighbor´s male brindle dog with a rope tied around his neck. The owner of the dog had found it stuck to a female dog and had forcefully pulled him off, causing injuries to the male dog. That forceful action may have injured the female dog, but no one brought her in. A pretty, dark-haired young woman was waiting with a large cardboard box holding a mama cat and three kittens. The cats weren´t hers, but she had wanted to help a friend. Five extra animals over the Saturday limit were accepted, in part because there was a volunteer vet helping - the young Jesús Isidro Pacheco Ponce. The mama cat was spayed, but unfortunately her kittens and a few other cats and dogs had to be turned away. We will return to this colonia soon.

CLÍNICA MUY LLENA EN COAPINOLE

STERILIZATIONS IN COLONIA COAPINOLE - May 20-23

Male dogs- 23; Female dogs - 45; Male cats - 31; Female cats - 43

TOTAL: 142 cats and dogs - an astonishing number accomplished by a extremely remarkable vet team.

This
clinic was paid for in part by the generous grant of $5,000 USD by the
Marchig Animal Welfare Trust, which is headquartered in Scotland. At a cost of $1,800 USD per clinic week, the Marchig Animal Welfare Trust sponsored two past clinics:San Vicente, Nayarit - April 29-May 2 =124 animals sterilized; Loma Bonita - May 6- 9 = 124 animals. With a $1,400 balance remaining, 78% of a third clinic is paid for = approximately 110 cats and dogs sterilized. TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS STERILIZED THANKS TO THE MARCHIG ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST= 330.

All
pet registration forms with signatures of owners or rescuers are submitted by
Dr. Poli to the local department of health, with copies to PEACEAnimals.

ESPERANDO - CLÍNICA DE COAPINOLE

PEACEAnimals, per our agreement with independent contractors, Pets for Life, is
obliged to pay extra for driving time and gasoline for areas outside Puerto
Vallarta.

DR. ANTHONY - CLÍNICA EN COAPINOLE

DONATIONS AT CLINIC: 1,190 pesos

THANK YOU to Angelica Llamas for paying for the four-day rent at this location and for donating two lunches to the vet team.

DONATIONS TO
PEACEANIMALS: None this week. We need not only financial donations, but lunch donations, collars and leashes, vet supplies and pet kennels, locations and especially large dog kennels. We seldom have enough kennels for all the pets.

EDUCATION PROGRAM: Leslie Caratachea made presentations regarding spay/neuter, care of pets, wildlife and the environment to 63 students in a private school in colonia Palmar de Aramara on May 10th, and on May 20th, presented to 135 students at the Generao Padilla school in colonia Coapinole.

Dogs at the Centro
de Acopio are only walked twice a week by volunteers organized by Friends of
Puerto Vallarta Animals.

VOLUNTARIO EN EL CENTRO DE ACOPIO

Food is always
needed. The government contributes two weeks of food annually.

VOLUNTARIA EN EL CENTRO DE ACOPIO

FOSTER HOMES ARE
NEEDED FOR CATS AND DOGS. PLEASE CONTACT THE ANIMAL RESCUE ORGANIZATIONS
ON OUR WEBSITE IF YOU CAN HELP.

SOS!!! "Blankita," a female Chihuahua rescued by Karla in Boca de Tomatlán needs a foster home for only month starting immediately.

BLANKITA NECESITA HOGAR TEMPORAL PARA 30 DÍAS

Please contact Karla, who is currently out of town for 30 days. This sweet little dog is also available for adoption. If no foster home found right away, Blankita will have to be taken to the Acopio (local pound) to wait for Karla´s return. Contact: kdelap1@yahoo.com.mx

FUÉ RESCATADA POR KARLA Y ESTÁ PARA ADOPCIÓN

CATS AND KITTENS: Shannon Beston reports that she and Adriana have seen 14 kittens dropped on the isla Cuale in the last 10 days that they have been able to collect. And there are always adult cats taken there, pets that someone no longer is able to keep or wants to keep. Some cats on the island are pregnant. Wildlife suffers. Soraya and Almendra of Puro Gato have a total of 35 abandoned kittens they´re fostering and need to find homes for. I don´t know the numbers of all the other cats in other feline rescue organizations - AngeliCAT; Paraiso Felino; PurrProject - but it is in the hundreds, with thousands more living on the streets of Puerto Vallarta.

SMILEAMAZON– When ordering on Amazon, if you click on the following link you
can designate PEACEAnimals as a recipient of Amazon´s donation of 0.5% of
some of your purchases. http://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-3726038

ESPERANDO EN LA SOMBRA ATRÁS DE LA CLÍNICA EN COAPINOLE

SHEDULE/HORARIO

MAY 27-30
- Colonia Volcanes - at the local community center where free English
and computer classes are given. Megan Jane Shelton, who organizes and
teaches this program, requested this clinic and will secure donations
of lunches and funds to cover the extra gas and driving time for the vet
team.ADDRESS: Escuela Prim. Urbana 1170

JUNE June 3-June 6- NO clinic. Our vets will be in the nearby state of Colima for a veterinary competition. Twenty-five veterinarian groups from all over México will be represented, with all expenses be paid for these teams. PEACEAnimals has a superb vet team with Pets for Life, and hope they win!

Clinic
schedule, including directions and other clinic information are always on
website: www.peaceanimals.org
and on this blog: www.gretchen-peace-and-pv.blogspot.com

JESÚS ISIDRO PACHECO PONCE- VETERINARIO VOLUNTARIO - COAPINOLE

Please
"like" PEACEAnimals on FaceBook.

LUNCH DONATIONS
NEEDED FOR VET TEAM: PEACEAnimals has a budget of 70 pesos per vet team individual
(three persons) per day for 4 days a week for lunches.

DR. ANTHONY - COAPINOLE

Please consider
bringing lunches for our vet team to the clinics. If you can do this, please
let me know so we can create a lunch schedule. By having lunches donated, these
savings can used for purchases of supplies and medicines.

WE
NEED VOLUNTEERS AT THE CLINICS. Please sign up:
infopeaceanimals@gmail.com

LESLIE PREPARANDO UN GATITO PARA CIRUGÍA - COAPINOLE

If directions
needed, please call our dedicated line (directions are only in Spanish) or
refer to our website or this blog.

COST FOR ONE
SURGERY WEEK CLINIC IS APPROXIMATELY $1,800 USD.

ESTERILIZACIÓNES DE MASCOTAS EXTRAS EN COAPINOLE - SÁBADO

PLEASE CONSIDER
MAKING A DONATION VIA CHECK, CREDIT CARD, PAYPAL, BEQUEST OR STOCK
TRANSFER. Note: Stocks are transferred at full value without the
donating stock owner being taxed. Name of recipient of
donations for all donations is simply "PEACE."

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About Me

Gretchen DeWitt is president of the board of directors of PEACEAnimals, which was founded in 2011. She was co-founder of the SPCAPV, where she served as president for 18 months before joining the board of directors of PEACE MEXICO. Her focus was raising funds for "Ayuda a los Animales," a free spay/neuter program.